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inheritocrat

inheritocrat noun: one who benefits from inherited wealth.

Noun

inheritocrat (plural inheritocrats)

  1. One who benefits from inherited wealth.
    • Is a child with a loving family that happens to be poor worse off than the child of barely-functioning inheritocrats who want as little as possible to do with their children (“emotionally distant” is whitewashing things)?2017 March 30, ex804, Greater Greater Washington
    • If Tom was an inheritocrat, I spoke to many meritocrats, those who had made it in modern Britain with little parental help, but this came with much resentment.2024 November 17, Eliza Filby, “Bank of Mum and Dad: why we all now live in an ‘inheritocracy’”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Forms of inheritocrat

pluralinheritocrats

Origin of inheritocrat

From inherit + -o- + -crat.

Questions about inheritocrat

What does inheritocrat mean?
Inheritocrat means one who benefits from inherited wealth.
What part of speech is inheritocrat?
Inheritocrat is a noun.
What is the plural of inheritocrat?
The plural of inheritocrat is inheritocrats.

Words near inheritocrat in the dictionary

  1. inheriter
  2. inheriters
  3. inheriting
  4. inheritocracies
  5. inheritocracy
  6. inheritocrat
  7. inheritocratic
  8. inheritocrats
  9. inheritor
  10. inheritors
  11. inheritour

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